Animals

Taxi drivers automatically develop a thick skin in order to survive the provocations and insults which come with the territory of carting drunks. Those who can't, quit.  

Yet some revilements are so disgusting and vicious they go way beyond ordinary disrespect. Such savage hatefulness suggests a much deeper malaise, an inbuilt sickness of mind which can only be attributed to a culture of barbarism.

At least that’s my conclusion from receiving an insult on the weekend after refusing to hand over my cap to an aggressive and arrogant drunk. When his friends told him to behave, he switched from his mother tongue to English to be sure I got the message...

"I swear to God, I’ll ____ his mother in the ____ then cut her up in front of the family.”

Animals masquerading as humans live amongst us.

Comments

[LaLa]

That's disgusting :(

[Gerri Patrick]

Some things can't be unseen or unheard. You couldn't pay me enough to endure the exposure to lowlifes that your job entails.

[Lance]

That is a threat Adrian. Blatant and frightening.
You have pick up and drop off details, did you have the tape or camera running ?
I would suggest that incident is most certainly reportable.
Pissed or not, you don't have to accept that sort of threat in your workplace.
Follow it up mate. You won't stop it all, but you may stop him.

Take care mate.

[Marc]

I remember getting in my first cab in Sydney (I lived in Adelaide at the time), and being shocked by the great big perspex barrier between myself and the cab driver. I felt it put a distance between myself and them, and I felt alienated. I then felt unsafe, knowing I was in a city that needed these safeguards to protect the drivers.

After a story like that, I know they're absolutely necessary :(

[James]

No prizes for guessing the 'mother tongue'...

[Aleksey]

There was some another way out.
You could hand over your cap with appropriate smile and he will be ashamed.
It is difficult trick, but in some cultures it is customary and works.
With your job you have an endless field for experiments. :-)

Also russian crossroad rule says: give a way to the fool. :-) ( it is 3D rule: dai dorogu duraku - дай дорогу дураку )

[Peter]

"Animals masquerading as humans live amongst us".
I know it may be journalistic licence, (easy way out?), but please be more careful in choosing your words.
Animals don`t behave like the low life scum you mentioned.
Sure there may be the odd threatening physco dog but check out the IQ and attitude of the owner. Over my sixty plus years I can assure you that animals generally like to be not annoyed or bothered and are not a threat. Do continue to hit the degenerates that are a problem to all society with every thing you can, but I do think referring to them as animals is unfair to most of the worlds animals.

[Walter]

Hand over your cap? He wanted your cap? How bizarre and disturbing.

[oxfordstreetboy]

Imagine if he wanted your undies?

Still,I would have just gave him the cap ,maybe he deep down liked your body odour,take it as a compliment,and make him out as a fool as Alesky said.
Smile and give it to him like you are flattered he loved you.
The cap is worth what,3 dollars?

[bill]

let me guess, was his native tongue arabic?

[adrian]

bill, at the time I resisted naming the language, but then, I didn't need to.